A Study on Women Empowerment Through Self-Help Groups with Special Reference to Malappuram District in Kerala

Abstract

Empowerment of women has been as major concern for the society for many decades. It is true that government has taken many initiatives towards women empowerment of the society. But the fact is that most of such initiates at the beginning were not focused to provide empowerment for the lower strata of the population where women are less exposed to the environment. In that context the concept of self-help emerged which subsequently played a significant role in empowering women. Hence the study focuses to analyses how effectively self-help groups empower women and what social impacts bring among these groups after joining self-help groups. The investigation has distinct in nature. Required data are collected through field survey. For the purpose of research 140 samples have taken and random sampling method was used to collect data. Statistical tools used for the analysis are ANOVA, Garret ranking and simple percentage.